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SUMMARY:West Coast Hellenic Book Club: Diary of a Soldier in the Asia Minor Campaign\, 1919-1921 by Pantelis C. Karatasakis
DESCRIPTION:West Coast Hellenic Book Club \nDiary of a Soldier in the Asia Minor Campaign\, 1919-1921 by Pantelis C. Karatasakis\n(Published by Alec P. Karys\, 2023) \nThis discussion will feature book editors Alec P. Karys and Gregory Kontos. \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director of the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, and Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer in Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University. \nThis discussion will be held in English. \nSaturday\, October 3\, 2026\n10:00 A.M. Los Angeles / 8:00 P.M. Greece\nVia Zoom \nClick here to RSVP for this book club \nForeword by Gonda Van Steen\, Koraes Chair\, King’s College London: \nThis short\, poignant account of an ordinary soldier’s experiences at the front during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1921 is well worth reading. Pantelis Karatasakis manages to evoke both the valiant spirit of the Greek troops and the awful hardships they were forced to endure. Even though this lively account ends a year before Greece’s defeat\, the conditions the author witnessed were an omen of what was to come: hunger and freezing cold\, haphazard military operations\, scorched earth tactics by both sides. The heroism of Pantelis Karatasakis and his comrades would not be enough for the Greeks to prevail\, and the Asia Minor Disaster of 1922 ensued. Alexander Kitroeff said\, “When empires dissolve and new nation-states emerge\, it is easy for the voices of ordinary people to get lost in the turmoil.” This publication of the diary of Pantelis C. Karatasakis brings not only the voice\, but also the tears\, sweat\, and blood\, of the foot soldiers of history back to the forefront. Pantelis moves us with Xenophon-like descriptions of places and distances\, which he interspersed with lyrical notes and the markers of a growing awareness of the sufferings of war -any war. He leaves a record of facts\, emotions\, hardships\, but ultimately survival and wisdom gained. Kudos to his son and to Gregory Kontos of Greek Ancestry to realize the value of this unique testimony. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nClick here to purchase this book on Amazon.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/diaryofasoldier/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Heritage,History,Literature,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:From Loom to Goddess: Weaving\, Cognition\, and Women’s Religious Experience in Ancient Greece\, lecture by Ellie Mackin Roberts
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Art History Art Council Lecture Series \nFrom Loom to Goddess: Weaving\, Cognition\, and Women’s Religious Experience in Ancient Greece \nLecture by\nDr. Ellie Mackin Roberts\nTeaching Fellow in Ancient Greek History\nUniversity of Leeds \nOctober 6\, 2026\n4:00 PM \n247 Dodd Hall\, UCLA Campus \nAn RSVP is required\, please reserve your spot here no later than October 1. \nEach year\, the women of Athens wove a new robe for their goddess. The peplos\, presented to the ancient olive-wood statue of Athena Polias at the climax of the Panathenaia\, began its life nine months earlier\, when the warp was ritually set up on the loom at the festival of the Chalkeia. This paper follows that textile through its full life: from fleece and spindle\, through the long months of weaving\, into the procession through the city’s streets\, and finally onto the body of the goddess herself. \nResearch in experimental psychology has demonstrated that wearing symbolically meaningful clothing measurably alters cognition – a phenomenon known as ‘enclothed cognition.’ But what of making such clothing? Drawing together cognitive science\, sensory archaeology\, and the material evidence of ancient textile production\, Dr. Ellie Roberts argues that the weaving of sacred cloth constituted what Roberts call here ‘productive cognition’: a sustained cognitive\, sensory\, and devotional transformation worked in the maker by the very object she was making. Standing at the warp-weighted loom – hands coated in lanolin\, beating the weft into scenes of cosmic battle – the weaver’s thought was shaped\, thread by thread\, by the garment destined for her goddess. \nTracing the peplos from loom to procession to dedication\, and setting it alongside the clothing dedicated by women to Artemis at Brauron\, Roberts recovers a dimension of ancient Greek religion that our male-authored sources almost entirely ignore: women’s religious experience as it was lived in the hands\, the eyes\, and the body. The sacred textile\, it argues\, was the connective tissue of Greek religion – an object that touched every body in the chain\, from maker to carrier to goddess\, and transformed each in turn.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/from_loom_to_goddess/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Art History,Classics,Hellenic
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SUMMARY:Backgammon Night
DESCRIPTION:Backgammon Night \nFriday\, October 9\, 2026\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM\n \n2117 Rolfe Hall\, UCLA Campus \nThis event is free\, but space is limited. \nJoin us for mezedes and conversation. \nRSVP for Backgammon Night here
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/backgammon-night-10/
LOCATION:2117 Rolfe Hall\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Hellenic
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SUMMARY:OXI Day
DESCRIPTION:OXI Day Celebration \nOctober 28\, 2026\n11:00 A.M. – Noon\nRolfe Courtyard\, UCLA Campus \nThis event is presented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the Hellenic Culture Club at UCLA \nWe will celebrate OXI Day\, a day that commemorates Greece’s unwavering courage and resilience. \nPlease join us for poetry readings by students. Light refreshments will be provided. \nClick here to RSVP for the OXI Day Celebration \nThis program is made possible thanks to generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/oxi-day/
LOCATION:Rolfe Courtyard\, 345 PORTOLA PLAZA\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Diaspora,Hellenic
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SUMMARY:Λέσχη Ανάγνωσης Ελληνικών Βιβλίων της Δυτικής Ακτής:  Αιολική Γη του Ηλία Βενέζη
DESCRIPTION:Λέσχη Ανάγνωσης Ελληνικών Βιβλίων της Δυτικής Ακτής \nΑιολική Γη του Ηλία Βενέζη \nΤη συζήτηση θα συντονίσουν η Δρ. Σάρον Γκερστέλ\, διευθύντρια του Κέντρου Μελέτης Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού Ίδρυμα Σταύρος Νιάρχος στο UCLA\, και η Δρ. Ειρήνη Κωτσοβίλη\, λέκτορας Παγκόσμιων Ανθρωπιστικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Simon Fraser. \nΗ διάλεξη θα γίνει στα Ελληνικά. \nΣάββατο\, 7 Νοεμβρίου 2026\n10:00 π.μ. Λος Άντζελες / 8:00 μ.μ. Ελλάδα\nΜέσω Zoom \nΠατήστε εδώ για να δηλώσετε συμμετοχή στη συνάντηση της Λέσχης Ανάγνωσης. \nΤο πρόγραμμα αυτό πραγματοποιείται χάρη στη γενναιόδωρη υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος Σταύρος Νιάρχος (ΙΣΝ). \nΜπορείτε να βρείτε την ελληνική έκδοση εδώ: \nhttps://www.greeceinprint.com/index.php/en/literature/literary/aioliki-gi-detail \nFor those who understand Greek\, but prefer to read in English\, you can find the English edition here: \nhttps://www.amazon.com/Land-Aeolia-Ilias-Venezis/dp/9607120434 \nΈνα αρχείο PDF είναι διαθέσιμο εδώ: \nLand of Aeolia – PDF from Academia.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/landofaeolia/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Literature,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Memory Rehearsal presentation by Eleni Sikelianos\, Poet
DESCRIPTION:Memory Rehearsal\nPresentation by Eleni Sikelianos\, Poet\nNovember 14\, 2026\n4:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus\nReception to follow\nRSVP at this link to attend\nIn 1901\, Eva Palmer abandoned her life as a privileged New York socialite\, moving to Paris with her lover\, the writer and salonist\, Natalie Barney. The two Americans became the center of a wild tangle of lesbian love affairs and backyard performances based on intentional reimaginings of Sappho’s work and life. A chance encounter led Eva to Greece\, where she married Angelos Sikelianos\, a visionary poet who would become a Greek national hero. Celebrated American poet Eleni Sikelianos grew up knowing little of these illustrious ancestors\, her great grandparents\, who\, in the early 20th century staged a revival of the ancient Delphic festivals\, convinced that it would open a path to world peace. It was not until the age of 20\, on her first trip to Greece\, that she encountered the breadth of their legacy. In her new book\, Memory Rehearsal (City Lights\, 2026)\, Sikelianos unearths the story of her search for these pioneering ancestors\, in a text that shifts between prose\, poetry\, imaginary performance texts\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, with archival and family photographs. \nEleni will read from and discuss Memory Rehearsal\, which Kirkus calls a “moving family memoir and a triumph of cultural archaeology.” \nEleni Sikelianos was born into a family of tree workers\, bohemians\, poets\, ne’er-do-wells\, visionaries\, and smalltime sort-of hustlers. She is a poet\, writer\, collaborator\, and “master of mixing genres.” As a student of the poets of Naropa\, she is a lineage-holder in the Outrider poetics family tree. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics\, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral work. She has published ten books of poetry (most recently\, Your Kingdom\, 2023) and a trilogy of unclassifiable hybrid works\, sometimes called nonfiction\, sometimes memoirs\, sometimes fiction: The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine\, and\, most recently\, Memory Rehearsal  (City Lights\, 2026). Memory Rehearsal\, called “a triumph of cultural archaeology” in a starred Kirkus review and named One of Publishers Weekly’sMost Anticipated Books for 2026\, is a genre-busting encounter between a poet and her ancestral past documenting a startling intersection of queer history\, ancient theater\, utopian visions\, and modern poetry. \nAmong other honors\, she has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships\, a Fulbright Artists fellowship\, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in nonfiction. She grew up in earshot of the ocean\, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara\, and has since lived in San Francisco\, New York\, Paris\, Athens (Greece)\, Boulder (Colorado)\, and Providence. \nMemory Rehearsal will be available for purchase at the event! All major credit cards\, Apple Pay\, and Google Pay are accepted. Cash is also accepted with exact change only. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/eleni_sikelianos/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Heritage,Lecture
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